Morning Update: Fox News replaces desks with screens; rise of fake Twitter accounts; Are tablets failing? Greenwald interviewed
This is Morning Update, our overnight wrap up of the international media and marketing news.
Mashable: Fox News replaces desks with ridiculously large touchscreens – that make it look like they have bought giant Samsung Galaxy devices.
“It what looks like something out of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory — or maybe Minority Report but with teeny tiny people — Fox News unveiled on Monday what it believes to be the future of the newsroom.”
Jay Rosen: The BBC’s 16 questions to Glenn Greenwald – Rosen takes a look at the questions asked for The Guardian’s Greenwald.
“I’ve been talking about this interview on Twitter today because to me this is a weak form of journalism. It takes common criticisms made of the subject and simply thrusts them at him one after the other to see how he handles it.”
Wall Street Journal: One big doubt hanging over Twitter’s IPO: fake accounts – will the millions of fake accounts impact the value of Twitter?
“One reason these bots exist is the vibrant gray market in buying and selling Twitter accounts that have a following. Just like lists of working email addresses can be sold to junk mail marketers, so too can Twitter accounts with thousands of followers.”
GigaOm: Why tablet magazines are a failure – will the tablet work for magazine content?
“I fear the app-based tablet approach to magazines leads straight to oblivion, at least for individual magazine titles.”
Oh the irony of us former Encore readers / subscribers telling Encore / Mumbrella for the past year plus, that an app-based tablet approach to (their) Encore magazine (and for others) is wrong!
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this is fascinang.
But how in hell do I access the page that lets me watch my choice of tv shows in catchup/
Where;s the helpful list page gone?
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